coolingn.
/ˈkuːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkulɪŋ/ 1. The action of making or becoming less warm or hot; an instance of this. Also with down, off.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun]
heartingOE
coolingc1350
refreshinga1382
recreationa1393
easement?a1400
rehetinga1400
freshing1422
refrigery?a1425
refectionc1450
refreshmenta1470
refrigeration1502
corroborating1530
recreating1538
comfortation1543
repast1546
rousing?a1563
refocillation1570
refresh1592
inanimationa1631
recruita1643
irrigationa1660
quicking1661
invigoration1662
reinvigoration1663
recuperation1703
rally1826
recruiting1840
energizing1841
recreance1842
inspiriting1846
animation1855
recruitment1862
inspiritment1886
pepping up1916
the mind > emotion > calmness > [noun] > restoration to composure > specific after period of stress
coolingc1350
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > becoming or making cold
coolingc1350
keelingc1384
chilling1393
refrigerationa1500
infrigidation1583
refrigerating1600
infrigidating1650
frigefaction1656
frigerationa1691
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > becoming or making cold > of the body or its parts
coolingc1350
refreidingc1384
refrigerationa1500
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > becoming cool
cooling1886
cool-down1914
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxv.11 (MED) We passed by fur and water, and þou laddest us into toleyng [read: coleyng; c1400 Dublin refreschyng; L. refrigerium].
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. iv. 46 Tholome wente to the kyng, sett in sum porche as for grace of refreytyng or colyng [L. quasi refrigerandi].
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 87 Coolynge: Frigefaccio.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lvi. §2. 202 In shadow of þi wengis..Þat is, in hilynge and kolynge of þi goednes and þi pite.
?a1547 Ten Recipes Henry VIII in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ix. 227 In the coolyng, putt in thiese thinges folowing.
1651 T. Vaughan Second Wash 49 The office of Respiration (say you) is to refresh the Blood by way of Refrigerating, or Cooling.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 71 The successive cooling or refrigeration of the earth is a groundless notion.
1860 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) I. iii. 103 By repeated heatings and coolings, however, they often become so brittle as to snap off.
1886 Athenæum 4 Sept. 298/2 Shrinkage consequent on the earth's secular cooling.
1911 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 July 494/1 Water which..affords them a ready means of ‘cooling-off’.
1937 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 29 Aug. 19/2 Dry storage..for both cooling down and storage of eggs is steadily growing in importance.
1976 S. Judson et al. Physical Geol. xix. 455/2 The iron meteorites show textural evidence of having formed by slow cooling and crystallization.
2005 Nature 14 July p. ix Galaxy formation is thought to involve the cooling of gas in dark-matter haloes collapsing under the influence of gravity and the expansion of the Universe.
2. figurative. The action of making or becoming less zealous or ardent; reduction in intensity or activity; an instance of this. Also with down, off.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > [noun] > restoration to composure
cooling1588
recomposure1659
the mind > emotion > calmness > [noun] > action of calming
lullingc1394
quietation?1504
mellowing1528
cooling1588
collection1602
sedation1616
becalming1625
calming1699
soothings1745
tranquillizing1801
soothing1813
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > becoming cold
coldingc1380
cooling1588
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > making cold
cooling1588
1588 R. Greene Perimedes sig. F4 The disdaine of thy parentage..is a sufficient cooling to thee.
1640 O. Sedgwick Christs Counsell 69 Take heed of the first coolings.
1681 J. Kettlewell Meas. Christian Obed. v. v. 670 Our passions are bodily powers, and are performed altogether by bodily instruments;..and are subject to all their coolings and abatements.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle (1779) II. liv. 136 This scene..did not at all contribute to the cooling of his concupiscence.
1765 M. Browne Causes that obstruct Progress of Reformation 21 The strength of the bearers of burdens was decayed, by the deaths, fallings off, declensions and coolings of this former reforming body.
1852 C. MacKay Mems. Extraordinary Pop. Delusions (rev. ed.) II. 30 They, starving themselves, sat down to starve out the enemy. But with want came a cooling of enthusiasm.
1909 Manitoba Free Press 9 Oct. 1/3 The Daily Telegraph still yells for the rejection of the budget..but there is a notable cooling down of the temper of the main body of the Unionist journals.
1989 Wall St. Jrnl. (European ed.) 14 Feb. 4/4 The modest slowdown in economic activity will stem from a cooling of household consumption.
1994 H. Burton Leonard Bernstein i. v. 46 There seemed to be a certain cooling off on the part of Mitropoulos in his feelings for the ‘boy genius’.
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cooling fan n.
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1562 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 158 Ane glas and sex litle culing fannis of litle wandis.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vii. 109/2 Their [sc. Earlets'] use, is..To be instead of a cooling Fan to the Heart.
1822 Times 25 June 4 (advt.) The plant and utensils of the Harmondsworth Brewery: comprising a 100-barrel liquor back.., cooling fan, mill and pump work.
1929 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 125 8 The temperature..can be regulated by moving the cooling fan closer or further off.
2003 Austral. Financial Rev. 31 Oct. (Life & Leisure section) 9/1 Hobbyists are modifying the beige cases that house the digital guts of their computers, installing neon lights, extra cooling fans and retro toggle switches.
cooling place n.
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1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Enfriadera A cooling-place.
1753 T. Richards Antiquæ Linguæ Britannicæ Thes. at Oerfa A cooling place.
1871 Times 19 Aug. 4/3 The readiness with which they can escape to a well-ventilated cooling place the moment they are incapacitated.
1972 Bears 2 156 They appear to be hastily constructed and their two basic functions are as a resting and cooling place.
cooling tub n.
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1545 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 42 Inventarye..In the brewhouse..a culyng tubbe.
1667 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 376 The Water they afterward boyl in Kettles, as we do Saltpeter, and put it into cooling Tubs.
1735 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer I. ix. 41 This way of putting Hops into the cooling Tubs is only meant where there is a perfect Necessity.
1870 B. Taylor Joseph & his Friend xi. 119 Two servants rapidly whisked the champagne-bottles from a cooling-tub in the adjoining closet.
1941 Mexia (Texas) Weekly 12 Sept. The smithy's cooling tub..in which red-hot irons from the forge are cooled.
2000 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 6 Aug. (Sports section) 15d Four runners had temperatures reaching 107. All were placed in cooling tubs—the medical tent had eight, each filled with ice water.
cooling water n.
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1897 Lancet 11 Sept. 698/1 The new instrument has a stout cylindrical handle, through which the cooling water circulates.
1919 L. H. Morrison Oil Engines xiii. 213 With a few engines the cooling water, after passing through the engine, is used to cool the exhaust header.
2005 Whisky Mag. Oct. 50/1 With distilleries like Balmenach needing 80,000 litres of cooling water every hour for their worm tubs, water is rapidly becoming a serious issue in a warmer Scotland.
C2. † cooling cup n. Obsolete a device for cooling liquids, consisting of one cup into which another containing a heat-absorbing substance is plunged.
cooling board n. U.S. regional a board on which a dead body is laid out.
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1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate II. xix. 217 I turn an honest penny by going out to nurse, and laying out folks for the cooling-board.
1939 H. C. Brearley in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 584/1 The ‘coolin' board’ of the undertaker.
2002 G. P. Ames Panhandle Dreams xxvii. 321 The neighbours..were talking about how long we kept Grandma Dovie laid out on her cooling board.
cooling coil n. Engineering a coiled tube containing refrigerant used as a heat exchanger in refrigerators, air conditioning systems, and other cooling devices.
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1867 Sci. Amer. 20 Apr. 255/1 I claim..introducing the cold current of water or air to the cooling coil at the point most distant from the pump.
1933 Charleston (W. Virginia) Gaz. 19 Apr. 14/3 The condensing unit operates on a defrosting cycle during which frost will melt from a cooling coil, but ice cubes will remain frozen.
2003 N. Petchers Combined Heating, Cooling & Power Handbk. xxxix. 737/2 In the traditional air conditioning process, dehumidification is accomplished by passing the airstream..over a cooling coil surface that is cold enough to cause condensation.
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1889 Cent. Dict. Cooling-cup, a vessel consisting of a cylindrical cup into which another conical cup may be plunged, used for reducing the temperature of liquids.
cooling curve n. a line graph in which temperature is plotted against time so as to show a phase change, typically from a liquid or gas to a solid.
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1890 Proc. Royal Soc. 48 444 We have..a second cooling curve to show the recalescence temperature when the heating had been higher.
1946 V. N. Wood Metall. Materials v. 144 When [water is] cooled in an atmosphere with a temperature below its freezing point, there is a steady decrease in temperature until 0°C. is reached, where there is a sudden check in the cooling curve.
2006 Materials Sci. & Engin. 428 42/1 Cooling curve analysis has been used for many years to define binary phase diagrams and for fundamental metallurgical studies.
cooling fin n. (chiefly in plural) any of several ridges or projections (usually forming an ordered array) which serve to dissipate heat from a device such as an engine or electronic equipment by increasing surface area.
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1914 A. H. Verrill Harper's Gasoline Engine Bk. ii. 17 (caption) Cooling-fins.
1972 Sci. Amer. Mar. 118/2 All power transistors..must be mounted on heat sinks that have large cooling fins.
2007 Newsday (Nexis) 6 May f8 The unit was overheating in the vicinity of the microprocessor. Not that I could see any dust on the visible cooling fins.
cooling floor n. Brewing a large shallow tank or cooler in which wort is cooled in the brewing of beer.
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1808 O. Evans in T. G. Fessenden Reg. Arts 339 Its use..is to spread the meal as fast as it falls from the elevator over the cooling floor.
1852 Househ. Words 16 Oct. 112/2 On the cooling-floor, I find a man stitching hop-pockets.
1936 Econ. Geogr. 12 159 After curing, the hops should be quickly cooled for which some growers provide a special cooling floor.
cooling pond n. an artificial pool in which water heated from an industrial process is allowed to cool or in which industrial waste is stored; cf. pond n. 1d.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > means for cooling heated water for re-use
cooling pond1850
cooling tower1876
pond1892
spray tower1937
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > pond for cooling water from steam engine
cooling pond1955
1850 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 13 257/2 Depreciation upon engine and machinery, engine-houses, and cooling-pond, £11,200 at 2 per cent.
1955 J. H. Wellington S. Afr. II. ii. xii. 182 As an illustration of the difficulty involved in using fuel resources in the absence of an adequate ‘cooling pond’, the use of the Witbank power station may be cited.
1985 K. W. Li & A. P. Priddy Power Plant Syst. Design xii. 479 Cooling ponds are increasingly used as a source of circulating water for power plant operation.
1993 Guardian 20 Oct. i. 2/1 Already much of the German fuel to be reprocessed is stored in cooling ponds at the entrance to Thorp.
cooling rack n. a wire rack on which freshly baked items are left to cool.
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1864 E. Burritt Walk to John O'Groats xiii. 274 I saw every process and implement employed in the construction of these pies for the market; the great tubs of pepper and spice, the huge ovens, the cooling racks.
1907 Englewood (Chicago) Times 29 Mar. 6/4 The whole baking being done without a hand touching the bread until it comes from the oven and is placed on the cooling racks.
2006 D. Arnoult Sufficient Grace 10 She sets cooling racks on the table for the cakes.
cooling tower n. a large tower in which hot water from an industrial process is cooled for reuse.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun] > for heating or cooling > for cooling heated water
cooling tower1876
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > means for cooling heated water for re-use
cooling pond1850
cooling tower1876
pond1892
spray tower1937
1876 Amer Cycl. XVI. 826/2 The oxide thus formed is carried along a conducting channel over a sheet of water into a cooling tower, 75 ft. high and 80 ft. in circumference at the base.
1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. VIII. 329/2 The hot water from the condensers is cooled in large concrete cooling towers, by being trickled over a series of large trays or ‘baffles’.
2005 New Yorker 10 Oct. 71/1 Dwarfed beneath the overbearing immensity of four hyperbolic cooling towers that came into view one at a time.
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cooling-off period n. a period of time for reflection before committing oneself.
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1913 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 10 July 4/2 In politics, in business and in social relations..the ‘cooling off’ period would be a good thing to have.
1970 Physics Bull. Mar. 99/2 The points put forward for discussion..included..a ‘cooling off’ period between school and university to allow school leavers more time to consider their plans.
2003 Daily Mirror 29 Jan. (Sports section) 2/1 If you do change your mind, there is a seven-day cooling-off period.
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coolingadj.
/ˈkuːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkulɪŋ/ 1. That is becoming cool or cooler. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > becoming cool
coolingOE
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Salisbury 38) in Anglia (1891) 13 38 Frigenti tepore : colgendre asolcennesse.
1661 R. Boyle Hist. Fluidity & Firmnesse ii, in Certain Physiol. Ess. 218 The Quicksilver..may..be congeal'd by the permeating steam of the cooling Lead.
1692 S. Jenks Contrite & Humble Heart 378 By This, they frequently..Renew their decaying Fervour, Enflame their cooling Love, Encourage their desponding Hearts.
1754 G. Jeffreys tr. J. Vanière Country Farm xiii, in G. Jeffreys Misc. in Verse & Prose 211 Fresh from the Bath they [sc. birds] instantly retreat, To chear their cooling Eggs with wonted heat.
1854 C. G. Halpine Lyrics 151 Drink your tea—your cooling tea!
1879 J. Cook Life & Soul 27 In the complex conditions of a cooling planet.
1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) ii. 35 Cooling magmas tend to form crystals.
1973 Hamilton (Ohio) Jrnl.-News 18 Feb. b6/4 Be sure that hot meals are really hot. Everyone has a tendency to rush through rapidly cooling food.
2007 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Sept. 33 Wherever activists are clustered round tepid pints or cooling coffee, the talk is of the coming general election.
2.
a. That makes cool or cooler; esp. (of medicine, etc.) that lowers the temperature of the blood, body, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective]
cooling?c1425
comfortablec1440
refreshing1534
rousing1576
vegetant1576
reviving1579
refriscative1582
refrigerating1583
cordial1584
airy1591
freshing1591
animating1595
fertile1597
recreating1600
refective1611
refreshfula1614
comforting1623
refrigerant1626
erecting1654
cordialine1674
refocillating1675
corroboratinga1680
refectory1693
invigorating1694
restoring1697
freshful1734
enlivening1746–7
livelya1754
tonic1756
stimulatory1758
vivifying1768
energizing1786
stimulative1791
refreshening1807
vitalizing1813
stimulating1827
recuperative1843
invigorative1860
innerving1868
breezy1870
tonicizing1890
reparatory1893
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool
chilling?a1400
cooling?c1425
infrigidative?1541
refrigerating1583
frigefying1599
refrigerative1603
infrigidating1650
frigefactive1651
algifical1656
frigorifical1656
frigidative1659
frigorific1668
refrigeratory1676
algific1708
refrigerant1766
air-cooling1832
frigorifying1851
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > making cold or cool > specifically the body, parts, or humours
refrigerating1583
cooling1671
coolrife1768
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 509 With morelle and wiþ oþer colyng medecynes.
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon xxiii. sig. Cii/l Of colynge waters.
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 132 If so be it he perceiue yet anye inwarde heate by the menes of the sweate, let him drincke the liquor destilled of coulinge thinges.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 14 The greene leaues quiuer with the cooling winde. View more context for this quotation
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. ii. 29 The Mvses friend (gray-eyde Aurora) yet Held all the Meadowes in a cooling sweat.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. M4 v The wine of cherries, and to these The cooling breath of Respasses.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 626 Dire inflammation which no cooling herb Or medcinal liquor can asswage. View more context for this quotation
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 244 Pomegranates..contain a Juice styptick, and extremely cooling.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 422 The stream that spreads Its cooling vapour o'er the dewy meads.
1819 E. Rigby tr. J. F. L. de Chateauvieux Italy xi. 141 The large knives cut into the beautiful fruit..and lett out a sweet perfume and a cooling juice.
1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max viii. 69 [I] left the..cooling drink beside the sick woman.
1930 Ecology 11 49 The temperature here is lower because of the cooling wind.
1981 A. Sillitoe Second Chance 169 The rain's cooling wash would flow down the veranda and along the gutters.
2007 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 23 Aug. e3 What better sort of place to find some shade and a cooling drink at the same time?
b. figurative. That makes something less warm or intense in colour; suggestive of coolness.
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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > cold
cold1706
cool1758
cooling?1790
coldish1878
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > quality of colour > toning down warm colour
cooling?1790
?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 61 in School of Arts (ed. 2) Cooling crayons, composed of black and white, should succeed these, and melt into the hair.
1861 A. H. Wall Man. Artistic Colouring xii. 254 As dry colours are very vivid and bright, you will require many cooling tints to break and subdue them.
1929 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 22 Sept. 3/4 The location of a room is one of the determining factors—whether shaded..or light and sunny on the south calling for dainty and cooling tints.
1998 J. Ryan Perennial Gardens for Texas xi. 110/2 A sunny patio may seem more comfortable with cooling pastels, not hot, bright colors.
3. South-East Asian and South Asian. Of a disease, food, or medicine: that cools, refreshes, or calms the body. Also of a person's constitution: sensitive to cold; susceptible to disorders such as colds, fatigue, sore muscles and joints, etc. Cf. heaty adj.The distinction between heaty and cooling is not determined by actual temperature but by the perceived effect of certain substances on the internal balance of heat and cold that is considered vital to health in traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. [Partly after Chinese liáng cool, preventing heat, (in traditional Chinese medicine, of foodstuffs, herbs, etc.) of a yin nature (compare yin n.1), promoting coolness in the body.]
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1842 P. Parker Statements Hospitals in China (new ed.) 10 The Chinese are probably more successful in the treatment of fevers, by..administering what they call ‘cooling’ medicines.
1973 New Nation (Singapore) 13 Apr. 11/4 The Chinese theory on the ‘heating’ and ‘cooling’ properties of food include the cucumber, which is regarded as ‘cooling’.
1980 Man 15 607 Kānti ate only mild, unspiced vegetable curries, without oil, coconut, or fish... These proscriptions were to give her ‘cooling’..foods to restore balance to her system.
1995 M. Lewis Singapore: Rough Guide 140/2 The place to go if you're concerned about your Yin and Yang balance: after checking your pulse and tongue, a resident Chinese physician recommends either a cooling or a ‘heaty’ dish from the menu.
2005 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 18 Dec. If someone tends to have a more ‘cooling’ body disposition, it means that the person is more prone to catching colds.
Compounds
cooling card n. now rare something which cools or lessens a person's passion or enthusiasm.There appears to be no evidence of a literal sense ‘a card played as a deterrent to other players’, but several early quots. suggest its existence.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > coldness or lack of warm feeling > that which causes
cooling cardc1564
cooler1592
c1564 J. Jefferes Bugbears iii. i, in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Italian (1911) 112 I beleve for all hys dotage it wylbe a coolyng carde to abate the yoothes courage.
1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 57 in Rocke of Regard Cut throte giues a cooling carde, For monie he will none.
1594 True Trag. Richard III sig. C4 My Lord, lay down a cooling card, this game is gone too far, You haue him fast, now cut him off, for feare of ciuill war.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. v. 40 There all is marr'd: there lies a cooling card . View more context for this quotation
1664 Marquis of Worcester in H. Dircks Life 2nd Marquis Worcester (1865) viii. 137 It would..prove a cooling card to many, whose zeal otherwise would transport them.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 4 Wood. [Aside.] That, besides her self, is a cooling Card.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §60 After this cooling Card, of being turned out, his Lordship soon warmed in the Conduct of his Party.
1941 A. K. Tuell John Sterling vii. 166 The force of scholarly admiration slackened in England, especially..after the cooling card of Sir Cornewall Lewis in 1855.
1993 J. Bate Shakespeare & Ovid i. 35 Lyly did not follow Euphues back..his literary style served not as a cooling card, but as a calling card with which he sought to gain entrance at court.
Derivatives
ˈcoolingly adv.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adverb]
refreshingly1658
coolingly1662
revivingly1740
refreshfully1769
animatingly1778
restoratively1835
invigoratively1858
tonically1873
invigoratingly1874
zingily1951
zingingly1952
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adverb] > in a cooling manner
coolingly1662
1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xxiv. 181 They intend or incline to nourish the vitall heat, and coolingly to refresh, or to diminish it.
1801 H. Summersett Martyn of Fenrose II. 156 Mount to the ramparts, sir; the air blows coolingly on them.
1880 Lady F. Dixie Across Patagonia i. 11 We are off again, with a slight breeze stealing coolingly over us.
1971 A. McCaffrey Ring of Fear ix. 224 Mrs. Garrison's notion of therapeutic food turned out to be raspberry sherbet, which went down easily, coolingly.
2006 ABC Mag. (Nexis) 17 Dec. 14 It all flows very nicely, thank you, coolingly as a breeze in the sunshine.
ˈcoolingness n. rare
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > coolness > cooling power or coolness
refraidour1483
coolingness1855
1855 G. Meredith Shaving of Shagpat 352 None of earth were like to them in silveriness, sweet coolingness.
1922 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 4 Apr. 9/3 Its delicious coolingness quenches their thirst.
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